Description

Xerox copies of letters written by the donor’s mother, Mrs. Ellis, when she accompanied her husband on an Inspection Tour of the Laccadive Islands in November and December 1920.

Description of travelling between islands, island life, people, domestic life, customs, by a young wife with her first experience of I.C.S. life and the area.

On loan:- A journal of the trip, illustrated by appropriate photographs – Incidents are described in the letters.. Photographs good but faded. 48pp. Also a brief description of a visit to Cannannore in 1922. 14pp.